How are they exceptional?

Their web UI was a glitchy mess for over a year. Rollouts of just data is staggered and often delayed. They still can’t adhere to a JSON schema accurately, even though others have figured this out ages ago. There are global outages regularly. Etc…

I’m impressed by some aspects of their rapid growth, but these are financial achievements (credit due Sam) more than technical ones.

It’s literally just a bunch of ex-stripe employees and data scientists..